DENVER — Laramie Energy Company has subleased 19,592 square feet of office space in downtown Denver. The space is located at the former offices of Pioneer Natural Resources Company in the Lower Downtown (LoDo) district. The address is 1401 17th St. Laramie Energy has outgrown its space at nearby Writer Square. CBRE’s Greg Holm represented the natural gas exploration and production company.
Since 2011, Austin’s multifamily market has become one of the strongest in the state and nation. With stable job growth, demand is projected to remain strong. Marketwide occupancy hovered around 94 percent at the end of the second quarter of 2015, with rents increasing at a 6 percent year-over-year clip. Austin and Travis County continue to rack up the rankings, with Thumbtack naming the area a top environment for small businesses and WalletHub naming it the best large U.S. city to live in. Headlight Data ranked Travis County the second fastest-growing financial services sector in 2014 and Austin came in as the number one city for startup activity on the 2015 Kaufmann Index. Generally, the first question on everyone’s minds is how long this bullish cycle will last. With the development pipeline running at historically high levels, what is the impact on today’s market and how does the future look? Apartment construction dropped off dramatically in 2010 and remained compressed until 2014. However, population grew incredibly fast during the construction trough, resulting in heightened demand. Today, there are 16,000 units in some stage of development with just over 10,000 expected to deliver in 2015. The difference between today and the …
IRVINGTON, MONTCLAIR AND EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates has arranged the sales of four multifamily properties, totaling 176 units, across Essex County, N.J. The Livingston-based firm represented the sellers, private investors, in each transaction. In the first transaction, David Oropeza of Gebroe-Hammer arranged the $5.6 million sale of a two-property multifamily package in Irvington. Located at 336 and 505-515 Stuyvesant Ave., the six-building portfolio features 120 units, on-premise parking, garages, on-site laundry and balconies. Oropeza represented the seller and secured the buyer in the deal. Also in Irvington, David Jarvis of Gebroe-Hammer brokered the sale of a three-story walk-up at 649 Chancellor Ave. The property features 14 renovated studio apartments and two ground-floor retail units. Terms of the sale, including buyer, seller and price, were not released. In the third transaction, a two-building portfolio, located at 97 and 101 Pine St. in Montclair, sold for $4 million. The 28-unit portfolio features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans with modern kitchen and baths, as well as hardwood flooring. Ken Uranowitz and Nicholas Nicolaou of Gebroe-Hammer handled the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not disclosed. In the final transaction, Oropeza and Jarvis negotiated the …
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building located at 1260 Broadway in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Situated between Green and Lexington avenues, the 7,000-square-foot property sold for $2.2 million, or $314 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The four-story walk-up building consists of three two-bedroom apartments, three one-bedroom apartments and one retail unit. Renovated in 2000, the property is fully free market with preferential rents. A preferential rent is a rent that an owner agrees to charge that is lower than the legal regulated rent that the owner could lawfully collect. Michael Amirkhanian of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged a $2 million first mortgage loan for a multifamily property located at 33 Williams St. in Mount Vernon’s Fleetwood section. Built in 1932, the seven-story property, which is situated on 1.1 acres, features 116 apartments, 26 on-site outdoor parking spots, 60 garage spots, gardens and a courtyard. The self-liquidating loan was placed with a savings bank at a 15-year fixed interest rate of 3.6 percent. Jeremiah Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Binswanger has arranged the long-term lease of 82,181 square feet of distribution space in Somerset for Iberia Foods of New York. The company plans to use the facility at 95 Clyde Road to support the more than 10,000 supermarkets, club stores, wholesalers and distributors on the East Coast that the company serves. Constructed in 1980, the property features 24-foot clear ceiling heights, a wet sprinkler system, T-8 lighting, eight dock-high doors, one drive-in door and parking for 100 vehicles. Andy Grabis and Jim Panczykowski of Binswanger represented the tenant in the transaction. The landlord is Cabot II-NJ M01 LLC.
HAMILTON, N.J. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a property located at 1670 White Horse-Mercerville Road in Hamilton to Babe Ruth League Inc., a non-profit educational, baseball organization. The stand-alone property features 8,500 square feet of office space, including a showroom of Babe Ruth memorabilia, and a 1,500-square-foot warehouse. The national organization plans to relocate its headquarters to the property from its former location at 1770 Brunswick Pike in Lawrence, N.J. Vinny Di Meglio and Thomas Romano of Colliers represented Babe Ruth League in the $712,000 transaction. The seller was Hamilton Park Associates LP.
BIG RAPIDS, MICH. — Agree Realty Corp. has sold Ferris Commons, a shopping center located in Big Rapids, about 60 miles north of Grand Rapids. The 173,557-square-foot center sold for $5.8 million to an undisclosed buyer. Agree Realty Corp. originally developed the property, which was 99.5 percent occupied, in 1990. The company has increased its 2015 disposition guidance to a range of $40 million to $50 million, with anticipated dispositions of both non-core shopping centers as well as select net-lease assets. Including this sale, Agree Realty has disposed of approximately $15 million year-to-date.
POLAND, OHIO — RED Mortgage Capital has closed a $3.5 million FHA 232/241(a) loan for Woodlands at Hampton Woods, a skilled nursing and assisted living facility located in Poland near Youngstown. The loan will fund the addition of a new skilled nursing building to the existing 121-bed campus. The Rehabilitation Center at Hampton Woods will include 26 private beds designed for short-term rehabilitation care and a 5,000-square-foot therapy gym. The project is owned and operated by affiliates of Woodland LLC, a locally owned provider of senior care services.
CHICAGO — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of an apartment building located at 926 W. George St. in Chicago. The 13-unit property sold for $3.8 million. Kyle Stengle of Marcus & Millichap’s Chicago office represented the buyer, a private investor, in the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
